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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
— Robertson Davies
Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life.
— Colleen Hoover
Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.
— Jessica Zafra
There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
— Wayne C. Booth
You won't find the tales I bear in any books ... My tales are from the Moon Realm. - Ebb Autumn
— Richard Due
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
— I.B. Opene
I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
— Warren Spector
They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane.
— Cassandra Clare
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine.
— Chris Philbrook
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
— Holless Wilbur Allen
I reread books to measure my degree of difference from myself.
— Heidi Julavits
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
— Gary Shteyngart
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
— Pai Kit Fai
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I like facts, I like books, I like films... but you still know the few from everything about me.
— Deyth Banger
I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
— Jen Selinsky
From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows?
— W. Somerset Maugham
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
— Howard Schwartz
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
— Algernon Blackwood
There are only two kinds of books good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. — Edward Abbey
Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone," I commented to Ryan."Or just one with a boner. — Stacey Marie Brown
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.
— Markus Zusak
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
— William Shakespeare
Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.
— John Wooden
Things to know from books to read
— Kip Koehler
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
— George W. Crane
I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
— Gabrielle Dubois
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.
— Richard Scarry
Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.
— Cordelia Fine
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
— Michael Dirda
More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
— Bobby Fischer
Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
— E.L. Doctorow
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
— Isobelle Carmody
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
— Samuel Davies
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
— Gail Z. Martin
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
— Isabel Allende
Perdu and Cuneo gaped at creatures that seemed to have sprung from Middle Earth or Winterfell. Such is the power of books.
— Nina George
The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.
— Faith Hunter
Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.
— Julie Fisher
In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.
— Ken Donaldson
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
— Khaled Hosseini
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
— Kristan Higgins
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.
— Denene Millner
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.
— Janet Evanovich
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
— Robert Bolt
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
— John Banville
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
— Robert Adamson
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
— James Jeffrey Roche
And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
— Gregory Maguire
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
— John Leonard
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
— Berkeley Breathed
Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous
— Elizabeth Hunter
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
— Mortimer J. Adler
It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
— Eraldo Banovac
